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What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
The economists were expecting to hear. Concern onen the big the consumer side of things. Year to date, 5. 4 . Do we have anything more at the moment . That. A big beat on back to the growth number. Updates fromore the National Bureau statistics, the life press briefing the Live Press Briefing should be ongoing. Thoughts . Not important . Not very important. Not the gdpcus on number but the breakdowns. Industrialrong production number is boosted by infrastructure activities. There have been a lot of investments in infrastructure, especially on transportation projects. And bad newsnews because it means that the economy relies on fiscal stimulus of Infrastructure Projects. Otherwise, regular activities should not pick up that growth. The bigger part of the chinese economy is domestically focus. Look at retail sales, holding up well. You cannot argue with that. It is an improvement. Reallyil sales, not equals two consumption. It is a combination of ofsumption and a combination businesses o
A faster pace gets even stronger. So that. Indias experience can be beneficial to these countries also mr president are. About. 303000 years ago you know 3000 years ago. A great port of india whose name was going in. He wrote. In tamil which is the most ancient language of the world he said yeah the movie. Which means. We belong to all places. And we belong to everyone. And this is something that was said 3000 years ago when this sense of belonging beyond borders is unique to india. In the last 5 years india has walked towards strengthening its centuries old great tradition of fraternity among nations and working for the welfare of the world. Which is indeed. In line with the key objectives of the United Nations. On the issues that india raises. The kind of new Global Platforms that india has come forward to build. Seek collective efforts to address. Serious global challenges and issues. But mr president. If you look at it from a historic and per capita emissions perspective. Indias co
Climate on oceans, Marine Biodiversity and human populations living in vulnerable areas. I appreciate it andthanks to our first panel. Ive enjoyed the conversation. I think were going to pick up on the end of that conversation around this idea of the Dynamic World and what that means now in the policy and security space so im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Heatherconley , John Mimikakis was Vice President for oceans Environmental Defense fund, there was director of fisheries and amy lehr who is the director of the Human Rights Initiative so think the panel and im going to sit down and be quiet and handed over to my panel and we will start off. Thank you so much, good morning. I think the arctic is a tough place to talk about. The intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways, the arctic is telling us, actually most polar regions are telling us they are under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming 2 to 3 times faster than any